Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)

by KelleyHelmstutlerDiDio (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $153.33

  The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from modest beginnings, but died as a nobleman and knight with a house and art collection envied by the nobility. This book focuses on Leoni's background and character, and on unknown aspects of his career, his social position in Milan, and the contents of his impressive art collection.